Wolfowitz - it's demonic doublespeak

Yahoo: "The number two Pentagon official said reducing American casualties in Iraq was more important than bringing US troops back home - and pointed to the rising Iraqi death toll as evidence this strategy was working" Link

Whilst protecting coalition forces from harm is of course right and proper, you do not have to be an Iraqi to recognise that Wolfowitz is clearly expressing a despicably racist and cynical view here. He is using the hapless Iraqis as cannon fodder, and he sees their escalating toll of death as evidence of the success of his "strategy" to protect US forces from harm. This same perverted thinking is behind the endless incidents of innocent Iraqis being "lit up" - to use the dehumanised US slang - by US forces seeking to protect themselves upon being confronted by cars that fail to heed an order to stop - five children orphaned, six marines protected from risk........more success! Link

It takes a certain kind of man to present the accelerating death rate of an "ally" as a good thing. You cannot help but pity the Iraqi forces - it seems that just about everyone wants them dead, their own side included.

Wolfowitz goes on to express his pleasure at the fact that Iraqis are still joining up and risking their necks. Might that have something to do with the lack of viable alternative means of putting bread on the table? It's not like there is much construction going on. But I guess Wolfowitz might think that a good thing as well, all things considered.